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                <p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">The </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Settings</span><span class="f_BodyText"> menu enables you to configure various settings for your overall project. Configure the resources involved, general types, maintenance types, metrics and estimation types, stereotypes, Tagged Values, cardinality values, datatypes, language macros, local directories, image management, CSV import and export specifications, and reference data export/import.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="177" style="width:177px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">People</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="563" style="width:563px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Display the </span><span class="f_UIControl"><a href="people.htm">People</a></span><span class="f_Tabletext"> dialog, which enables you to configure the authors, clients, resources and roles for your project.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="177" style="width:177px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">General Types</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="563" style="width:563px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Display the </span><span class="f_UIControl"><a href="generaltypes.htm">General Types</a></span><span class="f_Tabletext"> dialog, which enables you to configure requirements, status types, constraints and scenarios for your project.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="177" style="width:177px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Maintenance</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="563" style="width:563px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Display the </span><span class="f_UIControl"><a href="maintenance.htm">Maintenance</a></span><span class="f_Tabletext"> dialog, which enables you to track problem types and test types.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="177" style="width:177px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Project Indicators</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="563" style="width:563px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Define the project indicators (<a href="risktypes.htm">risks</a>, <a href="efforttypes.htm">efforts</a> and <a href="metrictypes.htm">metrics</a>) used in <a href="resources2.htm">Resource Management</a>.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="177" style="width:177px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Estimation Factors</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="563" style="width:563px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Display the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Estimation factors</span><span class="f_Tabletext"> dialog, which enables you to configure <a href="estimation.htm">estimation</a> factor types (<a href="tcfdialog.htm">Technical Complexity Factors</a>, <a href="ecfdialog.htm">Environmental Complexity Factors</a>, and <a href="defaulthours.htm">Default Hour Rate</a>) for your project.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="177" style="width:177px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">UML</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="563" style="width:563px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Configure <a href="stereotype_settings.htm">stereotypes</a>, <a href="propertytypes.htm">Tagged Value Types</a> and the <a href="cardinality.htm">cardinality list</a> for your project.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="563" style="width:563px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Display the</span><span class="f_UIControl"> <a href="manage_mdg_technologies.htm">MDG Technologies</a></span><span class="f_Tabletext"> dialog, which enables you to load in and use MDG Technology files.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="177" style="width:177px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Namespaces</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="563" style="width:563px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Locate and delete model <a href="namespaces.htm">namespaces</a>.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="177" style="width:177px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Template Package</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="563" style="width:563px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Configure or change the default element template directory.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="177" style="width:177px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Local Paths</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="563" style="width:563px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Configure <a href="localpaths.htm">local directories and paths</a>.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="177" style="width:177px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Auto Name Counters</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="563" style="width:563px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Configure <a href="autocounternames.htm">automatic naming</a> for elements.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="177" style="width:177px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Code Datatypes</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="563" style="width:563px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Add, modify and delete <a href="datatypes.htm">programming languages datatypes</a>.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="177" style="width:177px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Database Datatypes</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="563" style="width:563px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Add, modify and delete <a href="dbmsdatatypes.htm">database datatypes</a>.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="563" style="width:563px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Add and delete <a href="languagemacros.htm">preprocessor macros</a>.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="177" style="width:177px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Code Generation Templates</span><br>
<span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">[Ctrl]+[Shift]+[P]</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="563" style="width:563px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Modify code generation templates using the <a href="codetemplates.htm">Code Templates Editor</a>.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="177" style="width:177px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Transformation Templates</span><br>
<span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">[Ctrl]+[Alt]+[H]</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="563" style="width:563px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Modify transformation templates using the <a href="transformationtemplates.htm">Transformation Templates Editor</a>.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="563" style="width:563px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Open the </span><span class="f_UIControl"><a href="bitmapimagesindiagrams.htm">Image Manager</a></span><span class="f_Tabletext">.</span></p>
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<td valign="top" width="563" style="width:563px; border: solid 1px #000000;"><p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Configure the custom colors for the project. There are two options:</span></p>
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<li><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Get Project Custom Colors </span><span class="f_Tabletext">- g</span><span class="f_Tabletext">et the custom colors</span></li>
<li><span class="f_Tabletext" style="font-weight: bold;">Set Project Custom Colors </span><span class="f_Tabletext">- s</span><span class="f_Tabletext">et the custom colors</span></li>
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<p class="p_Tabletext"><span class="f_Tabletext">Custom colors are as used in the </span><span class="f_UIControl"><a href="configuredefaultappearance.htm">Appearance</a></span><span class="f_Tabletext"><a href="configuredefaultappearance.htm"> dialog</a>.</span></p>
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